Cedar Rapids Bus Franchise Extension Likely Approved
The Cedar Rapids voters will decide next Tuesday on a 10 year extension for Cedar Rapids City Lines to operate buses. The paper endorses the extension noting good service, wartime reliability, maintained 5 cent fares, and city council review rights for fare changes.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids City Lines
National City Lines, Inc
Cedar Rapids Bus Company
Iowa
Chamber of Commerce
Davenport
Dubuque
Sioux City
Des Moines
Waterloo
Mason City
Ottumwa
Central Business District
Kibitzers Watch Construction Boom In Philadelphia
A new Philadelphia site builds a pavilion for spectator volunteers overseeing a then under construction project. Supervisors get seats with views of operations and hourly news broadcasts plus entertainment. Attendance grows. refinements like operator name numerals and snack options are discussed.
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Philadelphia
Highway Surface Slipperiness Tested On Wet Blacktop
Tests on Highway 30 near the Benton Linn county line evaluated wet surface slipperiness after maintenance. W H Root and Ralph A Moyer led the assessments with helpers and the Iowa highway patrol. Moyer called the surface moderately slippery meaning slick when wet but not dangerous.
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Benton-Linn
W. H. Root
Iowa Highway Commission
Ralph A. Moyer
Iowa State College
Iowa Highway Patrol
We Back Mr Hattery For Interim Safety Leader
Overnor Blue weighs appointing a state public safety commissioner to replace Fred Wilkins who died. The column urges naming John Hattery, former Iowa highway patrol chief, as interim head to restore effectiveness, noting his lasting interest and willingness to serve three to four months.
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Overnor Blue
Fred Wilkins
Wilkins
Safety Department
Iowa Highway Patrol
John Hattery
Nevada
Hattery
Sweet Chemical Like Sugar Recalled in Trade Joke
A playful note from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch jokes about 1-N-propoxy-2-amino-4-nitrobenzene being 4000 times sweeter than sugar and equally sour, suggesting it could ease the bitterness in Molotov’s milk of human kindness. The line mocks chemical sweetness as a remedy.
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Vyacheslav M. Molotov
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Demobilization Backlash Hits Denazification Court Leader
A former president of a denazification court in Munich is found to be a Nazi party and SS member, illustrating the postwar purge’s unintended political fallout. The Detroit News warns this reflects earlier pressure that weakened counter intelligence. The Christian Science Monitor notes atomic matters shifting to civilian control and praises cooperative, constructive postwar governance.
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Munich
Nazi Party
Counter
Detroit News
Britain
Germany
Russia
Fellows
Christian Science Monitor
Windy Churchill Tops Stalin in Diplomatic Ferment
The speaker mocks Stalin and Mussolini while praising Churchill. Windy, a nickname for Churchill, is depicted as waging a long term battle against rivals with fevers of derision. The passage layers political digs and allegorical warfare in a lively, era-tinged voice.
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Joe Stalin
Windy Churchill
Tax Policy Reform and Liberalism in Public Discourse
Guest editorial argues tax policy should balance taxpayer and government without partisan bias. It laments simplification and favors Congressional action to redefine property rights, warning against administrative policy that reshapes lives via taxation. The piece critiques modern liberalism’s misuse of the term and urges principled, longstanding liberty.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Treasury
United States
Liberalism as a counterfeit coin in American speech
W Earl Hall argues liberalism has degenerated from its Greek and British roots into a tool used by pressure groups and totalitarian sympathizers. He cites Lincoln and the Bill of Rights, critiques welfare politics, and urges redefining or discarding the term to defend true liberal thought.
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William Aylott Orton
America
Jefferson
Lincoln
Gladstone
W. Earl Hall
Mason City Globe-Gazette
Ramsay Muir
Abraham Lincoln
Hitler
Mussolini
Europe
Ooner
Sprout
Republicans Jubilant Over Cummins Re election Victory
The Gazette reports Republicans confident of Gov. Albert B. Cummins win by about 25000 over Claude Porter. Cummins carried Linn County by roughly 400. A football game between Town and Coe is set for Saturday at Iowa Field. The crowd questions if Coe can score, but the general verdict is unlikely. Coe pledges a hard fight.
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Albert B. Cummins
Claude Porter
Linn County
Coe
Iowa Field
Iowa
Notre Dame
Fighting Irish
Dr. Anderson
G A R Campaign Aims to Increase Membership
A recruitment drive for the G A R plans a service modeled on military recruiting. The motion picture Lifeorama by Lymon H. Howe draws crowds at Greene's with matinee and night shows Saturday and Sunday evening.
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Lymon H. Howe
Greene
Mead Kilgore probe targets Bilbo in Senate clash
Mead and Kilgore lead a probe of Senator Bilbo, accusing him of past payoffs tied to Shushan and a Meridian project. The inquiry highlights Bilbo's alleged influence peddling from 1939 to 1941 and links to a Key Field contract.
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Senate
Mead Committee
Bilbo
Ge Roe
Jim Mead
Washington
New York
Sen
Mississippi
Sen. Mead
Sen. Kilgore
West Virginia
Mead
Truman
United States Senate
O. John Rogge
Justice Department
Huey Long
A. B. Shushan
New Orleans
Shushani
Sen. Bilbo
Shushan
John Rogge
Ed Terry
Grant Stewart
Robert Newton
Forrest B. Jackson
A. B. Friend
Volt Construction Company
Key Field
Meridian
Miss
Mead-Kilgore Committee
Reflections on Notre Dame Iowa game and everyday thoughts
A columnist laments missing the Notre Dame Iowa game and jokes about jinx superstitions. He muses on determinism, finds odd philosophy bits, recalls Halloween antics, and notes public opinion polls' hedge filled forecasts.
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